240382 - FWD/BACK buttons missing when starting Firefox0.8 via email link or dbl-clk on local .html file

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216602

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Jon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When Firefox 0.8 (and previous) are started through clicking on a link in an
email message or by double clicking on a local .html file in windows explorer,
the Back and Forward buttons are completely missing from the Navigation toolbar.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Close all Firefox windows
2.Click on a hyperlink in an email message (Thunderbird 0.5)
3.Look for the Back and Forward buttons
4.Further navigation to other sites does not make the buttons appear, you must
close the browser completely and re-open it throught it's normal icon.

Actual Results:  
Forward and Back buttons missing from Navigation toolbar

Expected Results:  
The forward and back buttons should be present regardless of how the browser was
opened.

Does not appear to be theme dependant.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040411
Firefox/0.8

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

reporter, are you using the default theme or a third-party theme?  you might be
normally using a certain install, but your default association is to a version
that doesn't work with your theme.

easy fix, open the way it works properly, go to Tools->Options, set default
browser, hit OK, then if you open via an external app it'll open the right version.

easy test, open so that it works, open Help->About Firefox, check the build ID
(copy/paste to notepad is good)
repeat when opening from an external link and compare the two.

This is probably invalid.

Comment 3

[Samir L. Boulema]

Marking as a Dupe.
Please reopen if you can respond to Mike's comment

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216602 ***